LAT columnist Patt Morrison pens an ode today to friend Carol Muske-Dukes, California’s brand new Poet Laureate … and looks ahead, too:
She is a believer in the transformational power of poetry –- after all, it’s the medium of joy and of solace; it’s the form of expression that even the untutored turn to in times of crisis and triumph. “I’m looking forward,” she emailed me, “to setting up a project — maybe something like `Poetry in the Prisons,’ or a project for kids in the tradition of the ancient troubadours — singing poems!”
Previously: California has a New Poet Laureate
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